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(Reuters) — Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.

The biggest crypto gainer today on Uniswap is Elon Musk (MUSK), but has some red flags - according to DEXTools the new meme token has a blacklist function in its smart contracts.

Dogecoin, the popular cryptocurrency that gained attention due to its meme-inspired origins, is facing a legal challenge. 

Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The lawsuit aims to recover a significant portion of the $90 million fee that the law firm received for successfully preventing Musk from abandoning his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.  The complaint was lodged on Wednesday in the California Superior Court located in San Francisco.

Threads, Meta's new app, is facing a potential legal battle as Twitter has reportedly issued a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatening to sue. CNN reports suggest that Twitter accuses Meta of engaging in trade secret theft by hiring ex-Twitter employees.

Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable: He has helped revive Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley mojo. That was evident this week as tens of millions of people signed up for Zuckerberg’s alternative to Musk’s Twitter. After more than eight months of turmoil under Musk on Twitter, a certain glee erupted from those who said they were tired of the chaos and sometimes nastiness of his particular digital clubhouse.

The complaint by Musk's X Corp, which owns Twitter, was filed on Wednesday in the California Superior Court in San Francisco. Musk accused Wachtell of exploiting Twitter by accepting, in the final days before the October 27, 2022 deadline to buy Twitter, a huge «success» fees doled out by departing Twitter executives who were grateful that Musk would be forced to close. The world's richest person, who also runs Tesla Inc and SpaceX, called the $90 million payout «unconscionable,» given that Wachtell had billed less than one-third that sum for its few months of work on the Delaware lawsuit.

Lawyers representing billionaire Elon Musk and Tesla asked a United States district court judge to toss out a motion to have them sanctioned over alleged conflicts of interest in a $258 billion lawsuit alleging Musk participated in an illegal racketeering scheme related to the Dogecoin (DOGE) cryptocurrency.

Elon Musk after completing his takeover bid of Twitter fired almost half of the company's 7,800 employees. The massive lay-off as a bid to induce cost cutting on the part of the Tesla chief received backlash and criciticism for being brutal.

Twitter executive chairman Elon Musk alleged in a social media post that Meta is “cheating” over the release of Threads, a text-based social network resembling Twitter.

Elon Musk, Musk took to Twitter and responded to different threads with jabs directed at Mark Zuckerberg. In response to DogeDesigner's tweet suggesting that Meta's new app logo resembles a tapeworm, Musk humorously replied, "Metaphorically too." Meanwhile, a username Enrique, said, "no following tab on threads? uninstalled." Musk replied, by saying, “A closed source, algorithm-only system means that manipulation of what information people see is essentially undetectable." Meanwhile, Twitter responded on Thursday by threatening to sue Meta, according to the publication Semafor, citing a letter delivered to Zuckerberg by a lawyer for Twitter.

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk has broken his silence on Meta's Twitter competitor Threads after the news of his lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg started spreading online. The new app has seen a very successful launch, as Zuckerberg has revealed that more than ten million users signed up within the first seven hours, dwarfing the launch of some other popular platforms. Earlier Thursday, news portal Semafor reported that Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta Platforms over its new, text-based app called Threads, citing a letter sent to Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

Twitter's executive chairman Elon Musk continues to push for more regulatory oversight of artificial intelligence, claiming it may be "smarter than all humans at everything" in the future.

Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Elon Musk said via video link at the opening ceremony of an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai. "This is only speculation, but I think we'll achieve full self-driving, maybe what you would call four or five, I think later this year," the billionaire added, referring to two of the most advanced levels of autonomous driving technology. The mercurial entrepreneur and Twitter owner admitted that he had been wrong in previous predictions on this timeline, but added: "I feel like we're closer to it than we ever have been." The billionaire's latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone comes after Musk missed his own deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicle.

app by Instagram, offers users the ability to share text, and links, and engage in conversations by replying to or reposting messages from fellow users. However, several users on Twitter taking sides with Elon Musk have reacted on how the Meta’s new Threads app has been created. Recently, a Twitter user with the handle DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) mocked Meta’s new Threads app with his latest post.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has floated an alternative to the microblogging platform, called ‘Threads’, and people are making a beeline for it. In just four hours of its launch, the social media platform has recorded over five million signups, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday.Threads also topped the charts in terms of downloads on the iOS App Store. Earlier, Zuckerberg had posted that Threads saw over two million downloads just two hours after launch.

app by Instagram, offers users the ability to share text, and links, and engage in conversations by replying to or reposting messages from fellow users. However, several users on Twitter taking sides with Elon Musk have reacted on how the Meta’s new Threads app has been created. Recently, a Twitter user with the handle DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) mocked Meta’s new Threads app with his latest post.

Elon Musk on the day the Meta Platforms Inc founder rolled out a much-anticipated Twitter substitute ‘Threads app’. Meta's Instagram on Wednesday officially unveiled Threads which is considered the most potent threat to the struggling social media service Elon Musk owns.

Elon Musk owned social-media site. Threads is a new app enabling text, link sharing, and interaction through replies and reposts. Users can migrate their Instagram follower lists and account names, benefiting from the app's features “There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it," Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a post on Threads.

Threads, a new application explicitly developed to directly compete with Twitter. This launch poses the most significant challenge to Elon Musk's ailing social media platform to date.

TikTok, Mr Zuckerberg’s approval rating has quietly risen to its highest level in over three years. Meta now sees an opportunity for another, commercial victory. Various startups have tried to capitalise on Twitter’s travails, with little success.